22 / Intentional connection in the digital office

Hello and welcome to another issue of Arnes Weekly! Hope your week was good, enjoy ✌🏻

Tweet of the Week

"I'm sorry, but we had to cut down the scope to make the deadline." — @WdeB

Culture

• Intentional connection in the digital office (seths.blog)

  Seth Godin about the difference of online and offline human connection.

• The Mentorship Diamond (mikemcquaid.com)

  Mike McQuaid about mentorship and why it is important (in both directions).

Software Engineering

• Coverage Marks (ferrous-systems.com)

  Aleksey describes the concept of coverage marks. Pretty cool concept.

• Rust programs written entirely in Rust (blog.sunfishcode.online)

  sunfishcode about what it takes to have Rust programs only depend on Rust code (not libc and friends).

• How PCI-Express works and why you should care? #GPU (ovh.com)

  A great explanation of PCIe and what to look out for when trying to maximise your GPU performance.

Cutting Room Floor

• mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours (independent.co.uk)

  Thomas Kingsley about BioNTech moving to human trials for their mRNA-based cancer therapy!

• The 'Dead-Internet Theory' Is Wrong but Feels True (theatlantic.com)

  Kaitlyn Tiffany about the conspiracy story that most of the internet today is bots.

• The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (theguardian.com)

  Sophie Elmhirst tells the story of the failed plan to sell flats on a cruise ship for a tax-free cryptocurrency dream-society.